Yes, from the CBC archives: An interview with Gloria Steinem from her New York apartment in Nov. 1968 about the New Journalism, about reporting with compassion and learning to say "I".
Being a female writer is controversial and very exotic at the time which is all too obvious from the way Steinem is being interviewed:
The topic of her journalistic undercover work as a Playboy Bunny gives rise to just one question from Moses Znaimer, the interviewer: "I thought Playboy Bunnies were supposed to be stacked - how did you get the job?" Also Znaimer is curious to know: "How many ladies' things do you like doing? Do you cook?" No, she doesn't cook, but she is ironing a shirt while they're talking, and Znaimer seems happy be able to announce that she does that exceptionally well.
Finally we're back in the studio where another host wraps up by characterising Gloria Steinem as "a heck of writer" - and "not a hateful looker".
The topic of her journalistic undercover work as a Playboy Bunny gives rise to just one question from Moses Znaimer, the interviewer: "I thought Playboy Bunnies were supposed to be stacked - how did you get the job?" Also Znaimer is curious to know: "How many ladies' things do you like doing? Do you cook?" No, she doesn't cook, but she is ironing a shirt while they're talking, and Znaimer seems happy be able to announce that she does that exceptionally well.
Finally we're back in the studio where another host wraps up by characterising Gloria Steinem as "a heck of writer" - and "not a hateful looker".
4 comments:
And just today on Danish national radio, a news reporter is asking a group of boys in a kindergarten: Are there any girls' things that you like doing?
I like the fact that she was asked about which other ladies' things she liked to do with a poster of Che Guevara hanging on the wall behind her, apparently unnoticed by the interviewer.
Yes! That kind of situational irony seems to pervade the entire session as Steinem stays completely patient and serene while Znaimer tries his best to make some kind of familiar sense of her views and way of life.
What an amazing woman. Such an icon.
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